There has been an interesting trick, a single command, that allows unsupported CPUs to bypass Windows 11's system requirements check during setup. That has seemingly stopped working on very old chips.

Flyby11 is a tool that helps you install Windows 11 on devices that don’t meet the hardware requirements. You can use it to install Windows 11 24H2 or later, even ...

Bypassing Windows 11's hardware requirements is trivial, there is even an official means, but that requires TMP 1.2. Install Windows 11 using a clean install, then ...

When Windows 11 was first announced, it immediately created a lot of confusion among users as Microsoft announced some pretty stringent system requirements that made processors and systems just a few ...

With just a little more than a year left before Windows 10 hits its end-of-life, Microsoft has been busy encouraging people to upgrade to Windows 11. One of the hurdles with getting PCs upgraded to ...

Looking to upgrade from Windows 10? Here's how to figure out if your current PC will support Windows 11 and what you need to do—including enabling your TPM—to install Microsoft's latest operating ...

That was the reaction of a reader who successfully upgraded a 12-year-old PC from Windows 10 to Windows 11 after being repeatedly blocked by the compatibility checker in Microsoft's Windows 11 Setup ...

We originally published this install guide for Windows 11 shortly after the OS was released in October 2021. To keep it current and as useful as possible, we updated it in October 2024 to cover ...